Profiles & Bios

20
May
2012

Cher (Recording Artist/Actress/Director/Record Producer)

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cher.jpgCher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian, May 20, 1946) is an American recording artist, actress, director, and record producer. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in film, music and television.

Cher began her career as a backup singer and later came to prominence as one half of the pop rock duo Sonny & Cher with the success of their song "I Got You Babe" in 1965.

She subsequently established herself as a solo recording artist, and became a television star in 1971 with The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, a variety show for which she won a Golden Globe.

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13
May
2012

Julia Ward Howe (Abolitionist / Pacifist)

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Julia Ward_Howe_2Julia Ward Howe was born May 27, 1819, the fourth child of banker Samuel Ward and occasional poet Julia Rush Cutler. Among her siblings was Samuel Cutler Ward. Her father was a well-to-do banker.

Her mother, granddaughter of William Greene, Governor of Rhode Island and his wife Catharine Ray, died when Julia was five after having borne seven children by the age of 27.

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11
May
2012

Moira Kelly (Mother / Humanitarian)

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moira kelly1Moira Kelly (31 January 1964) is an Australian humanitarian worker. 

She is the legal guardian of four orphaned children: Trishna and Krishna Bangladeshi conjoined twins (since separated with surgery), and Iraqi-born Emmanuelle and Ahmed Mustafa who were found in a shoe box in a park.

Emmanuelle tells his story and sings on the XFactor in this video (warning: get tissues before watching, seriously): 

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10
May
2012

Mother Teresa (Missionaries of Charity Founder)

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motherteresa.jpgMother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India in 1950.

For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

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05
May
2012

Nellie Bly (Journalist/Adventurer)

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nellie-bly.jpgNellie Bly (May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922) was the pen name of pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran.

She remains notable for two feats: a record-breaking trip around the world in emulation of Jules Verne's character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within.

In addition to her writing, she was also an industrialist and charity worker.

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03
May
2012

Princess Haya of Jordan (Humanitarian/Sportswoman)

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hrh-haya-bint-al-hussein.jpgHaya bint Al Hussein (3 May 1974) is one of King Hussein I of Jordan's daughters and a wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

She generally describes herself as Her Royal Highness Princess Haya of Jordan (Arabic: ھيا‎), a title derived from her father.

Princess Haya represented Jordan in the 2000 Summer Olympics in show jumping. She was also her country’s flag bearer.

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28
Apr
2012

Barbra Streisand (Singer/Actress)

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barbara-streisand.jpgBarbra Streisand (born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter.

She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.

She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history. 

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